2014 Audi Quattro S1 Review
To the right was mounted engine Audi quattro original front and sent half of its power to the front axle owners complained that the understeer was catastrophic and cornering that they felt as if someone had attached a newspaper in the radiator grille.
There were other problems The engine in question was a February 1 liter, which in the grand scheme of things is small enough to compensate for the lack of size, it was equipped with a huge turbocharger which must have taken about 10 day meet the demands of more power.
Other things well, the wheel would have been described as a bit big for the helmsman of the Titanic, and although the car was cut, it was not your hatchback He was jerky, heavy nose, impractical and unwieldy Yet this profound defective vehicle makes me move to tears even today.
I absolutely loved We all did back then we loved her covered wheelarches bulbs and strip shifted five-cylinder We loved also the noise made by slamming her as wastegate roared through the frozen forests of Finland, or the dunes of Africa, on its way even rallying success.
The steering wheel was described as a bit big for the helmsman of the Titanic, and although the car was a coupe, it wasn t a hatchback.
Back in the early 1990s, I worked for a called Performance Car magazine, which made the 20-valve Quattro's Car of the Year Although the day staff came together to lead all contenders, a colleague in a understeered cornfield in the first corner it wasn t his fault, so I shan t reveal his name only here it starts with K and ends at Evin Blick.
I remember him coming out of the ground and decide that, despite its judgment, the quattro was excellent, and all the rest of us agree it was Even though we all kind of knew it wasn t but we did not know that behind the problems there was a very good idea to try to escape.
Today, his spirit lives in the Nissan GT-R Sá It quattro with all faults ironed wheel drive, turbocharged monster Nothing unparalleled savagery no car today leaves the line quite so violently over nothing Nothing so hard as brutal and you need to work hard to find something that is quite so well if you really like driving, if you worship at the altar of speed and purging four stars, then you should have a GT-R anyone who can afford one but chooses not to buy is frankly a little ladyboy.
All this raises the question what is playing Audi invented the recipe for four-wheel drive, good build quality and power turbocharged Yet he is very happy to sit back and let Nissan reap the rewards.
Oh, Audi can say that the RS 4 and the RS 6 are worthy successors to its original design, but they're not Not really lack the character that they lack the Nissan GT-R has in spades They lack the factor wow An original quattro was difficult to have, difficult to drive and difficult to handle it was hard it was unusual and he put Audi on the map.
Which brings me to the car you see pictured this morning, he called the Audi S1 and spirit at least that Nutter turbo all wheel drive approaches the original quattro all the German giant has over the past 20 years.
You may think it is nothing more than a normal A1 with a little more power and four poo slides to tell other motorists why they come to be overwhelmed by something a little unusual but it is more than just a hot hatchback.
An original quattro was difficult to have, difficult to drive and difficult to handle was difficult It was unusual and he put Audi on the map.
Audi hasn t simply with a powerful engine, reduces working height and splashed some red trim pieces around the cabin, he actually gave this little car four-wheel drive, and this meant completely reorganizing the rear end which meant a new equipment at the plant that is probably why the S1 carries a price tag that is located just south of its 25,000 this lot for a small car, but it is not much at all if rocketship turbocharged all wheel motor rekindles the spark quattro.
My first problem is the 2-liter engine is very good, very gutsy, and it makes a nice sort of bellowy noise at the top of the rev range, but Audi has demonstrated with the S3 that this device can be tuned to provide 296 horsepower brake -vapeur, so why in the S1 he only deliver 228bhp Yes, this lot in his car this small, but it is not as much as the four-wheel drive system could handle.
Or is it, this is my second problem, because, strangely, you get the torque effect that I have never met it in a car with four-wheel drive before, but in the S1, it is shovel replace the hard walk, come from a tight, and you can feel the front wheels squirming in their struggle to deal with both the direction and put the power down is strange.
My next problem is comfort even on a moderately bad road surface suspension is too stiff It doesn t accident, but it feels busy, which means that if you are a bit fat you tend to sit behind the wheel wobble is constantly driving round as one of the hotplates Who knows after a month or you may even lose a little weight.
So torque steer, a trick and a sense that is not the powerful engine it could be and none of that is the end of the world The original quattro was riddled with flaws and everyone loved yet because he was so charismatic.
What is the biggest problem that S1 is not It's fast and it's fun and it's very well done Audi has even resisted the temptation to look inside as the toilet case of a man, but doesn t put his hands down your pants and have a violin It Sá little too clinical and sterile.
I have much the same problem with two of the Volkswagen group other hot hatches of the Golf R and the Seat Leon Cupra 280 They're both great, but they do not feel exciting.
The Ford Fiesta ST, on the other hand, while it is not as powerful as the Leon Cupra 280 or the Golf R, but it is ten times more fun with this my choice again for a moment.
But I realize, of course, it wouldn t be yours you do care how brilliant you are not going to buy a Ford Fiesta because your friends will think that your life has taken a turn for the worse, they can even snicker when you tell them what you did.
This means that if you want a hot hatch, you must purchase the Golf GTI is no great difficulty at all, for it is fabulous in every sense, however, if you want to tour in the spiritual successor to the original quattro well, you must have the Nissan GT-R.
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